Hi, ever since I began the install process for the Pixel Experience ROM for I9100 my S2 is in a continuous bootloop. I started from a LineageOS that was at least 6 months old because I kept the phone turned off without the battery in it for that period because I don't use, I have another phone that I use as a daily. My problem is that no matter what ROM I install it keeps bootlooping. I think I did some steps wrong at the first install of the Pixel Experience ROM but I tried like 6 or 7 times after that and I'm pretty sure I got the steps right. I even tried installing other roms with / without emulated storage with no success. As of now I have the bone stock firmware with the stock pit file and it still does not boot. It goes past the screen that says the "Samsung Galaxy SII I9100" in a screen that has a animation with the samsung logo and that is where it ends. I've tried numerous clean installs, cache wipes and all this stuff. I think good to mention is that sometimes the stock recovery says it can't mount data and efs folder and sometimes the TWRP can't mount data. I fixed all these, except the efs file thing but it does not always come up. The only thing I have't tried with success and I don't know if it works in my state is ADB but when I tried "adb shell" it came up as an error even though the phone was recognised by "adb devices" command. I even tried as a last resort the "Nand wipe" in Odin but it *fortunately I think* didn't work (literally nothing happening). I don't know what this might mean, NAND corruption maybe?! I've been messing with this for 5 days already in all my free time and I've got nowhere. If you have any ideea, no matter how crazy, I can try it and tell you how that worked out.
I got it to connect to ADB properly but I still don't know what to do. Any sugestions?
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I managed to fix this problem by following THIS tutorial step by step.
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I did a search and found a similar topic which referred to Odin but I'm not to familiar with that software or its use.
I encrypted my Samsung Galaxy Nexus several months ago and now I want to decrypt the drive and wipe the information. Nothing I have tried has worked so far.
The option to perform a factory reset through the OS has not worked. I make the selection, enter in my passphrase, the phone reboots into the green robot screen (like it was updating) then when it boots back up it asks me to enter in the encryption passphrase again and I do then it takes me to my un-wiped phone.
I have also attempted to reset it with the ClockworkMod Recovery and it will not work either. Giving an "Error mounting data!" message and similar message for the rest
I have my Nexus unlocked and rooted but it is running stock other than those two.
Could someone tell me or point me to a proper step by step process to fix this?
So after trying several things to try and correct the issue I simply used the WUG Nexus Toolkit and re-flashed the stock image and its now its how I want it to be
Ok, so I wanted Ice Cream Sandwich on my Samsung Galaxy S Vibrant SGH-T959.
I found a Youtube video and eventually installed the passion ICS rom on my phone successfully. Then, I inserted my external sd card and took it back out with out unmounting it. This made my phone want to wipe all my (internal) sdcard data. So stupidly, I did. Luckily I have a recent backup. But then I did a reboot, and it said that the encryption failed and I needed to reset my phone. I complied. Then it would only go into the mod recovery screen, since I had no rom to reinstall (my sdcard wouldn't mount for some odd reason, even after I tried repeatedly). So I decided to start over. I used odin to revert it to what it came like. I unplugged it because it got stuck at cache.rfs and soft-bricked it. Luckily I know how to fix this so I got it back into odin, and I got it to work until it would have a blue reset box in the top left corner, and it said I removed my device. My phone then tried to reboot. It showed the vibrant screen, then crashed and showed the little swirl thing that it does before it shows the green charging battery, it would show that, then show that with the battery in the background, then crash and start again, never getting to the green battery. I tried unplugging it and booting it that way... it went to the vibrant screen and crashed yet again. Also can't get it to display the pink animation. I tried the odin thing again just to get the same result. I tried to boot into recovery mode and it won't even do that. It wont show the terminal thing to save its life. Any ideas? I can get it to the download screen. Any hope? (sorry for the in-depth story, but I thought it might help someone pinpoint what was wrong) I am sporting windows xp. Losing data isn't a problem for either my internal sdcard or external sdcard seeing as I have complete backups on my computer.
Thanks!
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I just tried again and it showed the terminal thing for the first time since I used odin. It will now show the green battery screen, it went into terminal and looked like it was doing stuff and it said that the data wipe failed. Boot Pattern still the same, goes to the vibrant screen and then crashes.
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It will now go into recovery.
AND AGAIN
Now after I wiped it etc. in recovery mode and rebooted and now it just shows the vibrant screen and crashes over and over on its own.
here's a work around fix
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1580902&highlight=encryption
Not-Working Links, noncompaitibility with windows xp it doesn't restore to 2.1
So I tried that a bit ago and the pit file link to download doesn't work. So I used the default one for the vibrant. Didn't successfully run 2.1. Still same problem. Oh, and also, the whole command prompt open in that folder doesn't work on xp, only windows 7 or vista, I found a fix, but still it doesn't recognize adb as a command that is acceptable or whatever.
Thanks, but any other help?
I try Odin and when my phone shows data formatting..... it says data wipe failed afterwards. I think this is the problem.
blu422 said:
So I tried that a bit ago and the pit file link to download doesn't work. So I used the default one for the vibrant. Didn't successfully run 2.1. Still same problem. Oh, and also, the whole command prompt open in that folder doesn't work on xp, only windows 7 or vista, I found a fix, but still it doesn't recognize adb as a command that is acceptable or whatever.
Thanks, but any other help?
I try Odin and when my phone shows data formatting..... it says data wipe failed afterwards. I think this is the problem.
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Looking back... I didn't know what adb was and now that I have the android SDK installed I'm sure I would be able to fix. Too bad I sold it for an insanely low price. Ugh.
Galaxy S3 T999 rooted and flashed more than daily.
I installed Chainfire3D (after hearing good things about it) and then realized the problems it causes, so i deleted the app and then its CF3D drivers from system/lib which didnt work properly anyways. Upon restart device doesnt boot anymore :crying: (welI maybe its on cause the battery generates heat, but its black screen) I also couldnt get titanium backup to work in the past just in case something like this happens cause it was constantly stuck on yahoo finance when backing up.
My main issue is I had alot of things (worth a couple days) installed on my phone, and dont want to lose all of it. Bad thing i didnt realize there is Nanadroid backup (cause its my first android phone) which works unlike titanium quickly and efficiently, but backing things up now after black screen is pointless no? i can acess CWM recovery, but dont want to factory reset yet.
So any way to inject those stupid CF3D drivers via ADB? Or maybe backup everything but that certain system/lib folder?
Edit: i ran into this:
On CF-Root just boot into recovery, ADB shell to it, and type "rootsh" (instead of "su") to have root shell access... if anything goes wrong, just "mount /system" and "/system/lib/cf3d_uninstall.sh" to remove the CF3D driver and restore the old one. Not very likely it will happen, but a good fallback option in case of issues (no need to reflash firmware or restore backup)
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, unfortunately cf3d_uninstall.sh was one of the files i deleted, but maybe if someone who has Chainfire3D installed on S3 LTE can share that file, i can then inject it and restore the old drivers?
Seems mine suffered a similar fate.
a friend suggested SPB 3D loaded it. It sucked and caused lock-ups and delays. I uninstalled and the phone seemed to be fine after.
I plugged the phone in to charge overnight and about an hour later when going to bed the screen was stuck on the boot-up screen.
has not gone past this since.
Wanted to get the firmware restored and after trying to find a suitable stock one I took it to my SP for repair they tried to flash it but it fails every time, they said the motherboard is toast.
It will boot to flash mode so it can be uploaded but it doesn't work. Odin says no partitions.
Tried Heimdall it detects the phone but it tells me the image is corrupt and I also have no idea how to repair the partition that seems to be lost.
white 16GB Tmoble GS3
Actually my current issue is similar, it boots up says galaxy S3 then black screen. I can connect to odin, i can boot into clockwork, and i can flash roms, ODIN says everything is successful after i flash but when it boots it still goes to a black screen. this happened after i flashed a rom(that worked) and flashing a kernel that also previously worked....after that its been stuck....i can flash whatever with success but i cannot seem to get it past that Galaxy S3 screen....
I flashed the new FreeGS3 rom, and the TGST STOCK ICS Alpha37 kernel i cleared caches and wiped davliks not too sure where to go from here.....Do i need factory tmoble GS3 PIT file?
Redsalamander said:
Seems mine suffered a similar fate.
a friend suggested SPB 3D loaded it. It sucked and caused lock-ups and delays. I uninstalled and the phone seemed to be fine after.
I plugged the phone in to charge overnight and about an hour later when going to bed the screen was stuck on the boot-up screen.
has not gone past this since.
Wanted to get the firmware restored and after trying to find a suitable stock one I took it to my SP for repair they tried to flash it but it fails every time, they said the motherboard is toast.
It will boot to flash mode so it can be uploaded but it doesn't work. Odin says no partitions.
Tried Heimdall it detects the phone but it tells me the image is corrupt and I also have no idea how to repair the partition that seems to be lost.
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Not to offend anyone the Dev app said he wasn't going to support it for the galaxy s3
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Turns out mine was a faulty mainboard after dragging their feet to repair it including a delay due to them wanting to verify warantee with proof of purchase samsung finaly agreed to swap it out for a new one.
Redsalamander said:
Turns out mine was a faulty mainboard after dragging their feet to repair it including a delay due to them wanting to verify warantee with proof of purchase samsung finaly agreed to swap it out for a new one.
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Well thing is on my end...i didn't flash whatever the OP had flashed. What i DID do though is flash a rom and a kernel on the same cwm event. when it rebooted...it just does this....
i have a backup file....its on my laptop though....with only using odin or cwm how can i push that file onto my phone? My CWM doesnt have USB mount else id just do that.....?
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I am really hoping someone can help me. I have been trying for weeks now to fix my phone: Samsung Galaxy S2 GT-i9100G. In July I stupidly updated from Gingerbread, which was working perfectly, to 4.1.2. Now my phone is practically useless. It switches itself off all the time, unless I just use it as a clock. Essentially I can only use it when it is plugged in. So I decided to try rooting it to do a battery calibration. With my mac I used heimdall to flash a rooted kernel and didn't get the full messages I expected: the final line about reattaching drivers was missing. Then when I used a terminal simulator or superuser on the phone I got an error: no su binary installed etc. So I decided to try using my linux machine last night. This time I got the full feed in terminal, so it looked like the installation was successful, but the same thing: the phone was not actually rooted.
I had also tried unsuccessfully to go back to gingerbread using the mac, no luck. Last night I was so frustrated that I decided to try installing cyanogenmod. At this point I have very little to lose: the alternative is to pay to unlock my old nokia and use that as an actual phone. I tried using the cyanogenmod wiki instructions (which I am not allowed to link to) but pushing to the sdcard didn't work. I got some error: is a directory. Note that when doing the factory reset through CWM recovery it said there was an error formatting the sdcard (something like android_secure. I should have written all of this down). Then I tried sideloading but I just got stuck on the sideload screen on the phone and had to restart the phone. I also found a guide about rooting through CWM recovery but it involves the same push method which just doesn't work. I guess that the problem is the sdcard formatting (note that after last night's factory reset I still have photos on my phone which shouldn't have survived) but I don't know what to do about it. I did try "format sdcard" from recovery mode but that failed.
I am comfortable with command line stuff but will need step by step instructions. I am not an expert at all, have just been reading a lot over the last few weeks trying to fix this. My flash counter now shows 14 or something (some resulted in soft bricking). I don';t know what I am doing wrong. Please help!
Try to flash it with Odin.
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Try to flash it with Odin.
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I'd have to get hold of a windows machine (none at home or work). Why do you think that would work better?
I have a Samsung Tab 3 (SM-T210R) that started rebooting in the middle of the night. It gets to the main screen and about 10 seconds later reboots. The date is reset to December.
I've tried everything I can find. First the easy stuff such as full charge, different USB cable, different USB port.
I've also tried other things. I do have TWRP installed and tried factory reset that appears to do nothing. I've also tried CWR with factory reset and get errors such as "can't mount /cache/recovery/log" and "can't open an't mount /cache/recovery/log".
I tried to flash a stock ROM with several versions of odin and it fails. At one time it said pit not found so tried to flash that it it fails as well. The last attempt with odin v 3.07 and pit and stock ROM it just hung.
I'm now going to try an different computer.
Any thoughts on what to do next? I've spent at least 10 hours on this and go nothing but frustration.
Thank you
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Odin on a older PC appeared to work. The flash ROM and PIT were loaded successfully according to Odin .... BUT, everything appears as it was before. All the old apps show up, the rebooting issue remains.
It would appear that no flashing takes. I also tried to flash newer version of TWRP and CWR and neither took.
mtbgca said:
I have a Samsung Tab 3 (SM-T210R) that started rebooting in the middle of the night. It gets to the main screen and about 10 seconds later reboots. The date is reset to December.
I've tried everything I can find. First the easy stuff such as full charge, different USB cable, different USB port.
I've also tried other things. I do have TWRP installed and tried factory reset that appears to do nothing. I've also tried CWR with factory reset and get errors such as "can't mount /cache/recovery/log" and "can't open an't mount /cache/recovery/log".
I tried to flash a stock ROM with several versions of odin and it fails. At one time it said pit not found so tried to flash that it it fails as well. The last attempt with odin v 3.07 and pit and stock ROM it just hung.
I'm now going to try an different computer.
Any thoughts on what to do next? I've spent at least 10 hours on this and go nothing but frustration.
Thank you
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Odin on a older PC appeared to work. The flash ROM and PIT were loaded successfully according to Odin .... BUT, everything appears as it was before. All the old apps show up, the rebooting issue remains.
It would appear that no flashing takes. I also tried to flash newer version of TWRP and CWR and neither took.
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If Stock ROM flashed with Odin doesn't solve the issue, then you probably have hardware issue.
Take it to a repair shop or Samsung Customer Service.
Nonta72 said:
If Stock ROM flashed with Odin doesn't solve the issue, then you probably have hardware issue.
Take it to a repair shop or Samsung Customer Service.
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Thanks for the reply, To me it appears to be software. I can use TWRP and communicate via adb. For example, push , shell, sideload from my PC to the tablet. I can copy, move and delete files.
I'm suspecting it's a partition problem but don't know enough to confirm it or fix it.
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Thanks for the reply, To me it appears to be software. I can use TWRP and communicate via adb. For example, push , shell, sideload from my PC to the tablet. I can copy, move and delete files.
I'm suspecting it's a partition problem but don't know enough to confirm it or fix it.
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Odin normally formats all the partitions, so, it should have fixed it if it was a partition problem.